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... notion of whether or not they would come out of the group. Still the excitement of simply planning our excursion was bubbling over. Natal ended up being a very long 4 hour drive from Recife. And our mood was lightened by our experience the day before. We took the cars down to the fan fest that Sunday afternoon. Irv, Karene, Emmett and Debbie in one car, while Kayla, Andrea and myself were in the other. It was not our first time to ...

... real time confirmation of his guidance, Mark D. stepped in to confirm or counter. With walkie talkies, we quickly communicated a new route then got off the highway at the last possible second before we got stuck with no way out. Pretty soon we found Bruce navigating us through the cobblestone streets and hills of the favelas. Narrow roads with cars, trucks, buses, dogs, horse drawn carts, people, chickens,and pot holes to navigate around. It truly was a scene out of ...

... is cyclical, people. Afterwards, we tried strange Amazonian fruit smoothies, met up with our friends Jared and Bradley, and went to Recife's Fan Fest to watch England's last stand versus Uruguay. If you remember from a previous post, the English fans have a unique charm about them and they did not disappoint. We positioned ourself between a group of Uruguayans and English fans to experience the full brunt of their combative natures. With little correlation to the actual game ...

... We got a little frevo dance instruction, got to watch video about the music and dance history and viewed some relics from the frevo past. It was a really cool museum. Then we had an awesome per kilo lunch, then took a boat to a little mini island featuring Francisco Brennand's somewhat phallic sculptures, commissioned by the ...

... dinner that night – "including the monkeys!" The second thing that soon became apparent was the wide disparity between wealth and poverty, with much cosmetic work going into constructing modern high rise buildings whilst older World Heritage Listed buildings have peeling paint and cracking plaster. Recife is like a cross between Miami Beach with palm trees and high rises and 3rd world Butterworth in the Transkei in South Africa. As Nesta our ...